New for 2013: Rifles allowed statewide, state parks open to hunting

9:53 AM,
Nov. 12, 2013

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the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

New for the 2013 Wisconsin gun deer hunting season, rifles will be allowed statewide, unless a local municipality has enacted a more restrictive ordinance, the state Department of Natural Resources reports.

Also, for the first time, most state park properties will be open to gun deer hunting; however, those park properties that were previously open to deer hunting by permit remain open by permit only.

Three years after the idea was first proposed in a citizen resolution during voting at Wisconsin Conservation Congress spring meetings, rifles will be allowed statewide for firearm deer ...